Lettuce (Lactuca sativa, variety Salanova) production in decoupled aquaponic systems: Same yield and similar quality as in conventional hydroponic systems but drastically reduced greenhouse gas emissions by saving inorganic fertilizer

• Hendrik Monsees ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Monsees, Johanna Suhl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: h.monsees@igb-berlin.de

  Affiliation Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2935-1106

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• Johanna Suhl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hendrik Monsees, Johanna Suhl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer–Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Division Biosystems Engineering, Berlin, Germany

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• Maurice Paul,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

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• Werner Kloas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Department of Endocrinology, Berlin, Germany

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• Dennis Dannehl,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer–Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Division Biosystems Engineering, Berlin, Germany

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• Sven Würtz

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

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